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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

School Fun with Pumpkins! Day 1

We LOVE this time of year and we are so excited to be set enough in our school schedule that we can allow some time for fun seasonal activities rather than rushing through the bare minimum!

As you know, we use (and love) Calvert. Our first graders we on Lesson 14 today and for our Games & Activities lesson we had "Five Little Birds". We decided to change it to "Five Little Pumpkins" instead! We printed off mini books from DLTK's website. You can print it here.

Emu and Duckling enjoyed coloring the pages and reading their new book.

As our "game" we printed a cute little rhyming activity. You can print it here. We glued the pumpkins on popcicle sticks and cut a slit in each fence post. All the pumpkins sat nicely on the fence. They enjoyed acting out the rhyme with their little puppets. Each of them took a turn reading a line and they got to take out a pumpkin for the line they each read. It was a great activity to work out some silliness before our math lesson!

We are looking forward to lots of other fun with pumpkins in the upcoming weeks! Check out these other awesome pumpkin activities that we look forward to doing! and don't miss all these awesome ideas for fall or these, whew, and we haven't even checked out pinterest yet! Better get started!! What kinds of things are you planning on doing?